Below, find how two of the five tips offered by Singer have helped boost everything from search engine rankings to social media exposure for TopRank Clients.

• Leverage formulas which work for others
  ’16 Must-Read B2B Marketing Strategy Ebooks’ by Marketo

Smashing Magazine has made page one of Digg hundreds of times using the headline formula ‘number + adjective + sticky message.’  Of course, this formula only works if the headline directs to content that is equally compelling to the audience.

With Marketo, a leading marketing automation software provider, TopRank provides consultation and helps create blog content that activates a passionate community of well connected and influential B2B marketers.  Tying the successful formula above to content proven to resonate with this audience helped this post achieve 500+ inbound links, a significant number of Tweets and a #4 Google ranking for  ‘marketing strategy ebooks,’ since its publication in December of 2009.

• Headlines should be outrageous, engaging, emotional, useful, counter-intuitive or remarkable – not to the world, but to your community
  ‘Microsoft Dynamics XRM: The Holiday Gift That Keeps on Giving,’ by InterDyn BMI

Not every product or service is designed to have broad appeal.  In cases where more niche markets are being targeted, the key is to find that fine line between broad appeal and bullseye need.

InterDyn BMI, a leading Microsoft Dynamics solution partner, concepted a post in December of 2009 that would connect two seemingly unrelated entities: Microsoft Dynamics XRM, a business software application, and holiday gift giving.

With a compelling headline tying it all together, this post achieved three times greater traffic than any other individual post in December, accounting for nearly 10% of total blog traffic for the month.  This post was also submitted and published to top online industry publications including CRM Software Blog and Microsoft Dynamics Community.

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Despite being an ever-expanding and constantly evolving industry, finding and securing a job in public relations (PR) remains a challenging endeavor. This fact was not lost on the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).  As a service to public relations professionals, the PRSA enhanced the usability of its Jobcenter. Of course, before PR professionals could use the Jobcenter to find jobs, the Jobcenter itself had to be found by PR professionals.

The following search engine optimization case study illustrates how TopRank® Online Marketing helped secure targeted keyword rankings for the PRSA Jobcenter, leading to visitor referral increases exceeding 400%.

Situation:

With over 32,000 professional and student members, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) represents the world’s largest PR organization. One of the key resources the PRSA offers to its members is the PRSA Jobcenter, where over 77,000 potential employees are able to connect with a seemingly infinite number of PR professionals of all experience levels.

In September of 2008, the PRSA made the decision to upgrade the architecture of the PRSA Jobcenter, with the objective of improving both traffic via search engine visibility and overall usability for its members.

As a component of its existing search engine optimization and consulting program, the PRSA engaged TopRank® Online Marketing to improve the usability and search engine visibility of its Jobcenter.

Solution:

TopRank® Online Marketing began by conducting an SEO Audit to identify target market keywords that would best meet the needs of candidates searching for specific types of PR and communications jobs.  As a result of this audit, a keyword glossary of popular and relevant terms was created and used to make recommendations to update pages, tags and links.

A component of the recommendations made by TopRank® Online Marketing was the creation of job category pages that offered specific information on the top PR job searches being conducted. TopRank® Online Marketing worked with the PRSA to create an RSS feed for each category, allowing job seekers to subscribe and receive automatic updates.

The new job category pages provided not only targeted content for the search engines to crawl, but also created a seamless connection between the employers and job seekers at the PRSA Jobcenter.

In addition, TopRank® Online Marketing implemented a variety of link building tactics, including the use of a widget, to populate other web sites with PRSA powered job listings.  These tactics provided both direct traffic and signals to search engine crawlers that other topically relevant web sites considered the PRSA Jobcenter a valuable resource.

Results:

Within the first six months of implementing recommendations, total traffic to the PRSA site increased by 20%, while pageviews for the PRSA Jobcenter increased by 40%.

Additionally, visitor referrals from competitive keyword rankings increased substantially.  Referrals from the keyword ‘public relations jobs’ alone, now ranking #1 in Google, increased by over 450%.

“The SEO team at TopRank has been a tremendous partner for improving the search engine visibility of the PRSA Jobcenter. Their work with keyword research, content optimization, code SEO and link building has been instrumental to growing a key business for our organization. I recommend SEO consulting services from TopRank without reservation.” – William Murray, President and COO, Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)

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Many companies launch corporate blogs taking into account only what the blog should do for them, rather than what they should do for their blog.  This can lead to blog posts being published sporadically, without the support of a consistent messaging strategy or editorial calendar.  Ultimately, this makes it extremely difficult for the blog to support overall company objectives.

The following case study features a blog marketing tactic developed by TopRank® Online Marketing for B2B marketing software provider Marketo that helped guide blog messaging, increase blog keyword traffic and improve blog referrals to the company’s website.

Situation:

Marketo, a leader in B2B marketing automation software, helps marketing and sales teams drive revenue and improve marketing accountability through email marketing, lead nurturing and lead scoring capabilities.  Founded by B2B marketing experts, Marketo lives up to its reputation as a thought leader via regular posts to the company’s Modern B2B Marketing blog.  Marketo engaged TopRank® Online Marketing to develop a blog marketing strategy that would increase priority keyword referrals, build search engine traffic and increase company awareness. This tactical case study highlights one of the tactics in support of the overall content marketing strategy.

Solution:

As part of an overall blog marketing strategy, TopRank® Online Marketing introduced the idea of reaching out to other thought leaders in the B2B marketing industry.  Insight gathered from these notables was shaped into keyword optimized blog posts that made up the “B2B Marketing Thought Leader Interview Series.” TopRank researched prospective interview subjects, constructed keyword rich and topically relevant questions, pitched and secured interviews, published and then promoted the interview blog posts.

Results:

The B2B Marketing Thought Leader Interview Series resulted in:

• Increase keyword referrals to the Modern B2B Marketing blog by over 60%
• Increase organic search traffic to the Modern B2B Marketing Blog by nearly 50%
• Increase referrals from the blog to the Marketo company website by over 140%

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Many companies, large and small, are struggling to discover the best way to begin social media marketing efforts. This case study features a small business social media marketing effort with TopRank Online Marketing and online games site, Smartkit.

Situation:

Smart-kit.com is a website dedicated to providing readers with intriguing content, puzzles and games that engage and exercise the brain. Founded by a board-certified neurologist, Smartkit’s goal is to help its readers have fun while exercising their brains. The business model of the web site is based on advertising and game sales.

Shortly after the website launched in the summer of 2006, Smartkit engaged TopRank Marketing to increase awareness, build search engine traffic and provide blog strategy consulting.

Solution:

To help increase visibility for Smartkit within the search engines and to increase monthly visitors to the website, TopRank Marketing’s first step was to develop and search marketing and blogging strategy.

TopRank Marketing conducted a code and template analysis of the site, keyword glossary research, and made recommendations for content optimization to include optimized title tags, meta descriptions, and on-page copy. TopRank’s Blog Marketing Consultants created and optimized a new site design for Smartkit that emphasizes its focus on providing the audience with new and entertaining online puzzles.

In addition to a search marketing program, TopRank Marketing has worked with Smartkit to develop a social media marketing strategy in order to build brand awareness, attract traffic and links through a combination of social network participation, submissions to blog & RSS directories and engagement with other online game web sites.

Results:

As a result of TopRank Marketing’s SEO and social media marketing efforts, more than 40% of the site’s overall traffic comes from the search engines while over 30% of the traffic comes from Smartkit’s online game social network participation and promotional marketing channels. Since starting work with TopRank Marketing in June of 2006, unique visitors have grown by 4,400%!

Smartkit continues to develop intriguing and fresh content to engage visitors and keeps them coming back for more. Because of an emphasis on fresh content and promotion, Smartkit averages over 300,000 page views each month.

“I just wanted to take some time and tell you how pleased I am with the outstanding job you’ve done marketing and growing the Smart Kit website. In under 2 years time, the site has reached close to 150,000 unique visitors/month, and I don’t think this would’ve been possible without your help. Your team’s passion, expertise and attention to detail has been instrumental in not only exponentially growing site traffic, but also in building a brand, and furthermore creating & maintaining a technically advanced, attractive, and “sticky” website that has run almost flawlessly from day one. As you know, this is no small feat.  My deepest thanks to you and the entire TopRank Team.”
R. Kaplan, Smartkit

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To help existing and potential customers learn about the types of services TopRank Online Marketing offers and the impact we can have on your bottom line business growth, TopRank is featuring selected case studies of client digitial marketing programs. TopRank services include: SEO, Social Media Marketing, Digital Public Relations, Email Marketing and Blog Consulting. Not every client engages all services, but understanding unique situations, TopRank’s marketing recommendations and the results, will help our readers make better decisions about their own internet marketing investments.

Situation:

J&O Fabrics Store, one of the largest fabric stores in New Jersey, provides a variety of retro and novelty fabrics for quilting, tapestries, draperies, and upholstering. A traditional, family owned brick and mortar store, J&O Fabrics made the decision to launch a website and online store in 2004 to increase brand awareness and sales.

Shortly after the website launched, J&O Fabrics engaged TopRank to optimize the jandofabrics.com web site to increase visitors on search engines looking to buy fabrics online.

Solution:

To help the newly launched website gain visibility online and drive qualified traffic, TopRank implemented a search engine optimization (SEO) program targeting retailers, wholesalers, quilters, furniture upholsterers, and seamstresses across the United States.

The TopRank search engine optimization program (SEO) for the jandofabrics.com site included:

• SEO strategy development
• Keyword analysis and research
• Template and database optimization
• Audit of site architecture and server side issues
• Content optimization 
• Content creation recommendations
• Ongoing link building
• Fabric blog optimization & promotion
• Ongoing content promotion
• Web analytics review and reporting

With over 40 years of experience in the fabric business, J&O Fabrics had a wealth of knowledge to share with its customers. TopRank Online Marketing implemented a company blog enabling J&O Fabrics to speak to and interact with its customers by archiving its newsletter online as well as offering unique fabric ideas, tips and tricks of the trade.

Results:

As a result of TopRank’s search engine optimization efforts, the J&O Fabrics website and blog now have over 60 top ten rankings for competitive keyword phrases across the major search engines. Here are a few top ten Google ranking examples as of 03/02/09:

• “fabric”
• “discount fabric”
• “fabric store”
• “disney fabric”
• “sports fabric”
• “novelty fabric”

Organic referrals from the top search engines account for over 80% of traffic for J&O Fabrics, resulting in an increase of unique visitors to both the website and blog by 214% since August 2006.

The J&O Fabrics blog continues to be a top traffic driver for J&O Fabrics, averaging over 10,000 unique visitors each month, by offering new and unique content to engage visitors.

“We’ve worked with TopRank for over 5 years. The SEO recommendations and consultation from the TopRank team have helped us far exceed our goals and expectations for the J&O Fabrics web site. I highly recommend TopRank for SEO or blog marketing services to any business that needs to get the most out of their marketing budget.” 
Ryan Safady, Owner J&O Fabrics

TopRank Online Marketing continues to provide J&O Fabrics ongoing search engine optimization, link building and blog promotion services for improved search engine performance of the jandofabrics.com web site.

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